ON SOME UNTRIED EXPERIMENTS 



produce an excellent flour with a slight yellow 

 tinge. 



When prepared and baked in the ordinary way, 

 it made a very good bread. 



I was quite sure that a grain of good commer- 

 cial value could be produced by further selective 

 breeding from the seed of this brome. But I had 

 only a small quantity of seed, and as other mat- 

 ters took my attention I neglected to plant it for 

 two or three seasons; and when it finally was 

 planted it failed to germinate. So the experiment 

 came to an end in unsatisfactory fashion, yet not 

 without offering interesting suggestions as to the 

 possibilities of development of this and other 

 plants of the tribe. 



Unfortunately I was not quite „sure as to the 

 exact species of brome that furnished the material 

 for this experiment. Moreover, I have not found 

 another plant that showed the same exceptional 

 qualities of seed, with which a new line of inves- 

 tigation might be begun. The one mentioned was 

 discovered only after careful inspection of more 

 than twenty-five thousand examples. 



But the finding of one sufficiently proves that 

 there must be others to be found if we search 

 widely enough, so I record the experience as a 

 stimulus to farther search and investigation with 

 a tribe of grasses represented by numerous other 



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